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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Bur Marigolds
  8. Arizona Beggarticks
  9. Supports

What Arizona Beggarticks supports

46 native animals
supported in the US
3 caterpillars 1 bees 7 food 35 flowers

Caterpillars All

3 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole on bur marigolds
  • American Sunflower Moth Homoeosoma electella on bur marigolds
  • Southern Emerald Synchlora frondaria on bur marigolds

Specialist bees All

1 native bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it, most recorded first.

  • Melissodes confusus Pollen specialist on Erigeron, Bidens, Senecio and 14 more on bur marigolds

Plant eaters All

7 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Tansy Aphid Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
  • Leafcurl Plum Aphid Brachycaudus helichrysi
  • American Serpentine Leaf Miner Liriomyza trifolii
  • Sora Porzana carolina on bur marigolds
  • Virginia Rail Rallus limicola on bur marigolds

Flower visitors All

35 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens
  • Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  • Red-belted Bumble Bee Bombus rufocinctus
  • Crimson Patch Chlosyne janais
  • Furcate Dung Fly Scathophaga furcata
  • Annulate Masked Bee Hylaeus annulatus
  • Little Masked Bee Hylaeus pictipes
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus on bur marigolds
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